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Two fresh-faced UCLA law students met Carlis Pegues with a smile, eagerly leading the frail, 64-year-old woman into a cramped office to hear her troubles. Pegues, they learned, is locked in a dispute with her landlord, who she says is attempting to evict her. She was lost in a sea of legal paperwork with no money for an attorney and fearful of ending up back in a homeless shelter. So nearly every Wednesday, Pegues has been riding the bus from her home in the Baldwin Village area of South L.A. to a free legal clinic in skid row. There, a staff of attorneys and law student volunteers provides free legal advice once a week to anyone who seeks it. "It's a traumatic,...

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Two fresh-faced UCLA law students met Carlis Pegues with a smile, eagerly leading the frail, 64-year-old woman into a cramped office to hear her troubles.
Pegues, they learned, is locked in a dispute with her landlord, who she says is attempting to evict...

Question: I'm a director at my homeowner association. It's painful to admit, but the board made a terrible mistake in the attorney we hired. Our management company representative was taking a real estate class where another attorney from his firm was...

Two private eyes accused of conducting illegal surveillance on a pair of Costa Mesa city councilmen during the 2012 election season have pleaded not guilty and will be allowed to keep their state-issued licenses to carry firearms as they await trial.
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A Bronx law firm that receives city funding has been linked to a controversial music video that called for police officers to be killed, according to findings made public Thursday.
According to a report released by the New York City Department of...

New York politics were roiled Thursday when Sheldon Silver, the longtime speaker of the state Assembly, was charged with using the power of his office to seek and receive millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.
Silver surrendered to the FBI in...

A consumer group asked Sen. Robert Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles) on Monday to disclose all clients he takes on as an attorney with a law firm to determine whether he has a conflict of interest in pushing a proposal to revamp corporate taxes in California.
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Two private investigators accused of tailing an Orange County councilman with a GPS device and setting up another by calling in a false drunk driving report were charged Thursday with false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit a crime, the district...

The families of several victims killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the gun Adam Lanza used to kill 26 people, 20 of them children, according to a law firm representing...

In the months before the 2012 city elections, police officers in Costa Mesa mocked members of the City Council and suggested ways to catch them in compromising positions, according to emails contained in court documents.
The emails among board members of...

Police officers encouraged a law firm to monitor three Costa Mesa councilmen and suggested ways to catch the politicians in compromising positions, including tailing them to Las Vegas on a city-sponsored trip, according to emails contained in a criminal...

The city manager and police chief in Costa Mesa have issued an apology to three council members who were allegedly surveilled during bitter contract negotiations with police and vowed to examine the conduct of city officers.
Tom Hatch, Costa Mesa's chief...

The agency that regulates California's lawyers is once again beset with conflict, riddled by accusations involving expense accounts and ethics.
The turmoil became public last month when the board of the State Bar of California fired its executive...

For 56 years, the Chan family has been serving up tasty dim sum dumplings stuffed with pork and shrimp to throngs of business executives, tourists and San Francisco Bay Area families.
The steamed and fried dishes delivered by stylishly uniformed...

State Sen.-elect Bob Hertzberg has accepted a second job as a government affairs attorney for the law firm Glaser Weil, but says he will not advise clients on issues that may come before state agencies or the Legislature.
Hertzberg, a Democrat from Los...

Democrat Bob Hertzberg, who was elected to the state Senate this week, also has accepted a job as a government affairs attorney with the law firm Glaser Weil.
Hertzberg, who more than a decade ago served as a speaker of the state Assembly, won election...

Facebook Inc. is suing several law firms that represented a man who contended that he owned half of the social network and was entitled to billions of dollars from the company and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg.
The case was dismissed in April, and...

After UCLA chemistry professor Patrick Harran walked out of court in June, his lawyers issued a news release hailing the "first-of-its-kind" deal that all but freed him from criminal liability in a 2008 lab fire that killed a staff...

Question: I'm a law clerk working for an attorney who represents homeowner associations. He gave me cellphone logs and told me to bill his clients for calls made. He gets mad if I round off numbers and tells me I need to bill by the minute a pro-rata...

The panel charged with looking into sexual harassment claims against Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar has completed its work and forwarded its findings to Council President Herb Wesson.
News that the probe is finished comes as the City Council...